Billing Compliance

Collections Letter 1 -- Spanish

If you can't verify a patient's insurance, their signature on this form shows they know they are responsible for payment.

Assignment of Benefits -- Spanish

Use this letter when a claim is denied because a patient saw a physician in your group who is not his or her designated primary care physician.

This Advance Beneficiary Notice form, created by CMS, is best managed by the clinical team at your medical practice versus the front office staff.

Download this sample form to use with your medical practice's business associates to ensure private patient data protection and meet HIPAA regulations.

Technology offers so many different tools to accomplish so many different tasks.

If you’ve been putting off developing a compliance procedure for the new Red Flags Rule aimed at preventing identity theft, the time has come to act.

Following a two-year demonstration project in four states, Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program is going nationwide in 2009.

This month: Office vs. hospital outpatients; 2009 surgical global package; When to code a consult.

Whether a staff departure is amicable or not, it’s vital to formalize and document a process for removing an exiting employee’s IT access.

Outsourcing billing operations can be a relief to a frazzled practice. But you need to do it right; after all, your practice’s revenue is at stake.

Negative Nellie, Bitter Betty… Sound familiar? Here’s our advice on spotting a spoiler.